Lucy Rogers
Criminal defence lawyer
Anti-Israel protesters in Auckland are deliberately taking part in a global day of protest against Israel on Saturday, October 10 2026, which is the anniversary weekend of Hamas committing genocide on October 7 2023. This is appalling and proves my point that a significant proportion of the anti-Israel movement are intellectually dishonest. There are 51 other weekends they could be protesting in the year and they chose this one.
What Hamas did on October 7 2023 was obscene: 1450 Israelis, a majority of whom were civilians, were tortured, raped, set on fire, physically ripped apart while they were still alive, kidnapped and murdered. Parents were murdered in front of their children; children were murdered in front of their parents. The Civil Commission report of this year found that Hamas, after ripping people apart, had sex with pieces of their corpses, recorded it on video, and then posted footage to the victims’ own Facebook pages using their mobile phones.
NZ Against Hamas is holding a counterprotest. Juliet Moses and I will be speaking along with other speakers TBC. Please consider joining us: it’s at 1.45pm October 10 2026 outside Britomart in downtown Auckland in Te Komititanga Square. Our counterprotest is officially endorsed by the New Zealand Jewish Council.
Victim blaming on the anniversary weekend of October 7 of all days is a sickening act of evil.
This article was published by Kiwiblog.
